When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Be larger than your task.

Orison Swett Marden

Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not.

Oscar Wilde

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

Kate Bosworth

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Nate Silver

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Lord Chesterfield

Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life is, of course, a wonderful thing, but not on this day of all days.

Paul Hoffman

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Margaret Fuller

The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress.

C.S. Lewis

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

Jerry Saltz

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

Henry A. Kissinger

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

Harry Melling